When comparing Eclipse + Android Development Tools plugin vs Project Rider, the Slant community recommends Project Rider for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs for Android development?”Project Rider is ranked 6th while Eclipse + Android Development Tools plugin is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Project Rider is:

ReSharper is a popular Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers. IntelliJ IDEA is a popular and fully featured JAVA IDE.

Pros

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Good offline capabilities

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Free and open source

Eclipse is a free and open source software, it's released under the Eclipse Public license.

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Java programming language and XML editors

Has full support for both Java and XML.

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Large selection of plugins

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins.

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Graphical interface

ADT provides GUI access to many of the command line SDK.

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Highly customizable

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable.

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Good font rendering

Because Eclipse is based on SWT, it uses the native font rendering and thus looks better than other IDEs on some Linux systems, where the Java font rendering is not optimal.

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New C# IDE based on ReSharper and the IntelliJ platform

ReSharper is a popular Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers. IntelliJ IDEA is a popular and fully featured JAVA IDE.

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Superior "quality of life" features

Extremely good at filling in all the mindless boilerplate type code while you stay productive.

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Multiple runtime support

Project Rider supports the .NET Framework and Mono, with CoreCLR support in the works. It also includes templates for creating new projects, and when you create an empty project, it's literally empty

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Cross-platform

As well as running and debugging multiple runtimes, Project Rider itself runs on multiple platforms. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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Version control integration

Intellij plugins for Git, Mercurial and TFS plus Local History of files

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Supports all the development lifecycle

Project Rider can build MSBuild and XBuild solutions as well as DNX/.NET CLI projects, and allows debugging .NET and Mono applications. DNX/.NET CLI debugging and CoreCLR support are coming.

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Decompile code for any .net library

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Cons

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Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources.

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May lose support in the future

Google recommends moving away from Eclipse for Android Development, plugins and features are adopted much later from Eclipse than from Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA and in the future the ADT plugin may be abandoned altogether.

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Not free

Project Rider has a trial version available, but is not free.

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Relatively young project

Some bugs are to be expected since it's still a relatively young project.

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